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Violence in the DRC can be brought to an end if the geographical scope of the conflict is broadened to include all neighbouring countries.
Just over 100 years ago, Maasai in Kenya were moved into reserves, where they could be more easily taxed and controlled, to make way for white settlement.
Thousands of plant species are used in African traditional medicine. Extracts from some of these plants are part of important pharmaceutical drugs.
Intermediary cities have a vital role to play in the economies of African countries.
Cooperating with honeyguides has been found to increase food security. It facilitates cultural traditions and enables income or trade.
Informal settlements in Dar es Salaam are highly vulnerable to the health effects of heat.
Stricter measures had major impacts on farmers’ livelihoods and food security.
Instead of evicting pastoralists from their ancestral land, more effort must be made to create new opportunities for them.
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These types of projects can be quite harmful. They affect the land, people and biodiversity and must be planned with all this in mind - building in future climate scenarios too.
Not only are physical banks out of reach, people also face barriers to using digital financial services.
President Samia Hassan has set Tanzania on a change of course – time will tell if the pattern holds and addresses the country’s challenges.
Antimicrobial resistance disproportionately affects the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries.
President Samia Hassan may have been an ‘accidental president’ but Tanzania’s leader has set out to showcase her own political strategy.
Hassan is winning party loyalists, and has launched a diplomatic charm offensive ahead of 2025 polls.
This is not an alternative to traditional disease surveillance, but a complementary tool.
Insurance, stress-tolerant seeds and tailored credit can make smallholder farming profitable.
Over two millennia, Swahili has built bridges among people across Africa and into the diaspora.
Young academies, which generally represent early career scientists, fared far better than their senior counterparts - a promising sign for the future.
Aside from human rights abuses, vigilantes may be unreliable, poorly skilled, and lacking transparency and accountability.
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Lecturer, University of Dar es Salaam
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Independent researcher & Honorary Research Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Nairobi
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Adjunct Lecturer, United States International University - Africa, United States International University
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of East London
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Associate Professor of International Studies, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer in Politics, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Disease Ecology and Public Health, University of Glasgow
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Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, Lancaster University
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Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa (UNISA), University of South Africa
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Steinberg Postdoctoral Fellow in International Migration Law, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Faculty of Law, McGill University
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Director, East African Institute, Aga Khan University
